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Search results for "preventable harm" ...
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No Small Thing
The Poughkeepsie Journal series “No Small Thing” goes where no other newspaper or media outlet has – it challenges the mainstream medical dogma on Lyme disease. In rigorously documented articles, Projects Writer Mary Beth Pfeiffer concludes that the major actors in this public health scandal -- chiefly the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Infectious Disease Society of America – have minimized and mismanaged a burgeoning epidemic of tick-borne disease at great harm to thousands of infected people. These two powerful institutions have held – in policy and pronouncement -- that Lyme disease is easy to diagnose and easy to cure. It is neither.
Tags: Media coverage; public health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; CDC
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Do No Harm
For the first time, reporters published an analysis of Nevada's state hospital records and revealed nearly 1000 cases of preventable harm to patients over the past decade. There are also reports of widespread hospital-acquired infections and countless cases of accidental surgical injuries. The reporters show that hospitals have tried to keep this information hidden from the public.
Tags: hospital care; preventable harm; transparency; surgical injuries; public records
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Out of jail and into the Classroom
A series of stories that revealed hundreds of criminals were approved to work in New Jersey schools because of loopholes in state laws designed to prevent their employment. The Times found officials, who approved the hires, feared the criminals would harm the children, but knew there was no system to monitor them on the job.
Tags: state laws; schools; state legislation; Trenton; New Jersey; criminals; school employees
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Bitter Battle Over Rural West
The Wall Street Journal looks at how Elko county officials in Nevada and the U.S. Forest Service have clashed "over a desolate road in test of Bush land policy." The story reports on the attempts of the federal agency to permanently close a 1.5 stretch of the South Canyon Road in order to prevent potential harm to a nearby river, while local officials are determined to reopen the road. The author sheds light on "the long-running record by state and local officials to wrest control of the region's vast public lands from the federal government." A major finding is that "the South Canyon case could serve as a precedent for thousands of similar road disputes between local and federal officials in ... Alaska, Oregon, Idaho and Utah."
Tags: Jarbidge River; protesters; environment; settlement; politics; endangered species; Forest Service; rural West